An intensive care consultant at St James' Hospital in Dublin has said they are receiving Covid-19 patients from "all age groups" into ICU.
Speaking on RTÉ's This Week programme, Dr Tom Ryan also said there has not yet been any surge in patients, but rather a "steady flow" into ICU, and said this was in part thanks to people adhering to the Covid-19 restrictions in place. "Nobody really is immune from this, so everybody has to be concerned about controlling this epidemic for their own sake and for society at large's sake, but there is a broad mix of patients from every walk of life has ended up in ICU," he added.
He said they are seeing people in their "30s, 40s, 50s, 60s… all age groups" ending up in ICU. Dr Ryan said the St James' ICU had